A set of record players triggered a divorce
It is said that "poor couples mourn", but the end of some marriages has nothing to do with money.
One day in 1963, Qiong Yao, who had just become the latest best-selling author with "Outside the Window", broke out a century war with her husband Qingjun at the time.
I can't remember exactly, but this was the first time they had quarreled between them.
No one thought that they came together because they shared a love of writing, but they were divided because of writing.
Four years ago, Qiong Yao, who failed the college entrance examination twice, ignored the opposition of her family and married the "poor boy" Qingjun.
Originally, Qingjun was a teacher with a meager salary, and Qiong Yao relied on writing contributions to supplement her family.
Soon, Qingjun entered a work for an aluminum company in Kaohsiung, his living conditions improved greatly, and he began to regain his former literary dreams.
However, he despised the romance novels written by Qiong Yao, and wanted to write works like "Dream of the Red Chamber", and after several attempts, the response was mediocre.
Later, the unit organized a year's worth of activities abroad, and Qingjun was selected.
At this time, Qiong Yao was also about to give birth, even though she was reluctant in her heart, but for the sake of her husband's future, Qiong Yao still agreed.
Qingjun left without hesitation, and in the following year, he toured European and American countries and was not happy, while Qiong Yao could only live in her in-laws' house and suffered from cold eyes.
I thought that when her husband returned, the family of three could finally share the heavenly wealth, but with the successive publication of Qiong Yao's works, Qingjun's works were not cared for, which greatly hit his original proud self-esteem, and he not only began to drink heavily, but also became involved in gambling.
It was also the popularity of "Outside the Window" that eventually made this home fall apart.
"Outside the Window" tells the story of Qiong Yao's teacher-student love in high school, which makes Qingjun suffer criticism in the company and his self-esteem is hurt, Qingjun actually published a small article against "Outside the Window", which made the relationship between the husband and wife fall to the freezing point.
This time the quarrel was due to a set of floor-standing record players sent by Ping Xintao, the founder of The Crown magazine who cooperated with Qiong Yao.
The jealous Qingjun made the war more intense, and the disheartened Qiong Yao seemed to have seen the end of this marriage.
Looking at the record player sent by Ping Xintao, Qiong Yao felt the warmth of a long absence, and she was determined that it was time to change her life.
Therefore, on June 3, 1964, Qiong Yao and Qingjun ended their five-year marriage.
Phoenix Man and Bai Fumei
Ping Xintao, because of Qiong Yao's unintentional words, carefully sent a set of floor-to-ceiling record players, which accelerated the end of her marriage.
His behavior not only ignited Qiong Yao's inner desire for love, but also made her want to get love like a moth to a fire.
So, after the divorce, Qiong Yao moved back to Taipei from Kaohsiung with her 3-year-old son, and the new home was opposite Ping Xintao's house.
However, at this time, Ping Xintao had his own happy and happy family, which was thanks to his wife, Lin Wanzhen.
The combination of Ping Xintao and Lin Wanzhen is the combination of the realistic version of "Phoenix Man" and "Bai Fumei".
At that time, Ping Xintao was a general accountant of Taiwan Fertilizer Company, and 19-year-old Lin Wanzhen was the "factory flower" of Taiwan Fertilizer Company.
Looking at the youthful and beautiful Lin Wanzhen in front of her, Ping Xintao launched a fierce offensive, but Lin Wanzhen, who came from the family of cotton spinning giants, replied, "You are not my ideal object."
However, Ping Xintao was not discouraged, and he said to his colleagues: "If you want to chase the most beautiful one", so he wrote a note to Lin Wanzhen: "Once the sea was shipwrecked as water, except for Wushan Mountain is not a cloud."
In the end, Ping Xintao hugged the beauty as he wished.
Soon after, the Lin family funded ping Xintao to found the "Crown" magazine, and Lin Wanzhen became the first employee of the magazine.
She wears several positions, from reader service to accounting, handling every matter in great detail, and is willing to be the woman behind Ping Xintao.
"When others take their girlfriends around to play, my girlfriend, dating is to help him pack books, help him deal with the subscribers, from before marriage to after marriage." 」
After marriage, Lin Wanzhen was busy with company affairs while giving birth to 3 children for Ping Xintao. The originally happy model family is about to undergo great changes because of the emergence of Qiong Yao.
Abandoned "enamel plates"
Qiong Yao first visited Ping Xintao's home when "Outside the Window" was first published.
Lin Wanzhen treats her warmly like other up-and-coming writers of the crown.
At that time, Qiong Yao also smiled and said to Lin Wanzhen: "Your little son is as old as my son", a sentence that made Lin Wanzhen and Qiong Yao closer.
Later, Qiong Yao moved to the opposite side of her home, and slowly, Lin Wanzhen felt that things were not good. Her husband, who originally returned home on time after work, had to drive to Qiong Yao's house first every day.
And the maid's words made Lin Wanzhen feel the seriousness of the matter.
The maid told Lin Wanzhen that one day Qiong Yao took advantage of her absence, wearing a Chinese-style brocade top to the house, asked Ping Xintao if she looked good, the maid felt strange and asked Lin Wanzhen, "I also feel inexplicable, you have new clothes, why do you want to come and ask other people's husbands to see?" ”
Later, Lin Wanzhen found that the curtains of Qiong Yao's home were changed to Ping Xintao's favorite big red, and also heard the two flirting with beef jerky on the phone, and also found that Ping Xintao bought a bunch of clothes for Qiong Yao overseas, and even found Qiong Yao's love letter to her husband in the chest of drawers.
There are all indications that the husband she once loved and paid for has cheated on.
One day her daughter asked her, "If your father asks you if you like summer or winter, how will you answer", Lin Wanzhen said: "It is not summer or winter."
The daughter said that Qiong Yao replied, "In the winter, I like the summer; in the summer, I like the winter."
Lin Wanzhen knew that she had encountered a strong opponent this time.
Late one night, Lin Wanzhen called Qiong Yao's house to find her husband, and Qiong Yao actually said, "You come and take him away", revealing arrogance and ridicule between her words.
Later, Lin Wanzhen recalled that during the tug-of-war of marriage for more than 10 years, she once wanted to jump from the three major bridges for a hundred years, but when she thought of three young children, she could only choose to be patient.
Finally, in 1976, Lin Wanzhen signed the small divorce agreement.
Lin Wanzhen recalled: "I may be the enamel plate in Xintao's eyes, durable, hot, sour, bitter, spicy, no problem, how to use it will not be broken, will not be broken."
And Qiong Yao is bone china, fragile, fragile, and needs to be carefully cared for. ”
What kind of discouragement do you have to experience to say such a sad and heartbreaking word?
80-year-old "little three-originator"
In the marriage tug-of-war between Ping Xintao and Lin Wanzhen for more than 10 years, Qiong Yao has been a "little three" for more than 10 years.
Qiong Yao also wanted to end this relationship, but Ping Xintao forced him to maintain the relationship with death.
That year, when Qiong Yao finally had a showdown with Ping Xintao, Ping Xintao did not agree to break up, and said that he wanted to be martyred, almost driving off a cliff, or Qiong Yao was lying on the engine cover to stop his martyrdom.
After stabilizing Qiong Yao's mood, Ping Xintao encouraged Qiong Yao to continue to work, while promising her that she would divorce and marry her when the children grew up.
After more than 10 years of underground relations, on May 9, 1979, they finally got married.
Qiong Yao once talked about her view of marriage:
"Don't blindly identify unhappy marriages as who is right and who is wrong, because you are not a party to a marriage, and you will never know the strange truths, people, are very complex creatures." 」
In the 40 years after marriage, Qiong Yao continued to cultivate, completed more than 50 literary works, and most of them were adapted into film and television works, and Ping Xintao also made a lot of money with the help of Qiong Yao, and developed the original crumbling magazine into a huge publishing group.
Perhaps in Ping Xintao's emotional world, Lin Wanzhen is not forced to quit because she is not attractive enough, but because she does not have Qiong Yao's ability to make money.
With the popularity of "Plum Blossom Branding", "A Curtain of Dreams", "Huan Zhu Gege" and so on, Qiong Yao has become the aunt of Qiong Yao in most people's memory, and the love triangle that was once loved has also been forgotten.
However, that disgraceful past is mentioned again.
In 2017, Ping Xintao suffered from dementia coma, Qiong Yao and his three children were deadlocked over whether to insert a nasogastric tube for Ping Xintao, and the children insisted on inserting a nasogastric tube for their father treatment, while Qiong Yao said that Ping Xintao said that he wanted to leave with dignity before he died.
At the time of the stalemate, Qiong Yao was eventually forced to compromise under the pressure of public opinion and subsequently handed over the right to take care.
Some people say that Qiong Yao is the "little three originators", and some people say that she "can only share happiness, can not share suffering", and then, Qiong Yao published a book "Before the Snow Falls: The Last Lesson in My Life", saying: "Let the grievances of these 50 years be written off."
A relationship without a winner
Originally thought that this family farce was over, but unexpectedly, in 2018, on the occasion of Qiong Yao's 80th birthday, Crown Publishing House announced that it was about to publish Lin Wanzhen's new book "Past Floating Light", with the title of "Silence for 50 Years, Finally Speaking".
It can be seen that the meaning of this is deep.
The book was completed with the encouragement of Lin Wanzhen and Ping Xintao's three children, taking Lin Wanzhen as the first perspective, telling about the triangle relationship 50 years ago, and bluntly saying that "the biggest problem in marriage is Qiong Yao".
Ping Yun, the current vice president and publisher of Crown Publishing House, the eldest son of Ping Xintao, wrote in the preface: "The father owes the mother a real apology, and history can be forgiven, but it cannot be forgotten."
It can be seen that the past has not only left an indelible stain on the parties, but also left a lingering shadow on the growth of their children.
Qiong Yao, who was old, was torn apart by her husband's ex-wife and three children, which can be described as a cold world. As soon as the book was listed, it caused an uproar.
In the insults and speculation of the world, in May 2019, Ping Xintao passed away safely.
And what about the other two women in the incident?
After Lin Wanzhen divorced Ping Xintao, she married Wang Ziping, the secretary of the hospital director who was 12 years older than her, and the two were in love. Later, she regained the painting she once loved and created ink painting for many years.
Her three-volume album has been collected by cultural institutions such as the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall and the Taiwan Museum of Art.
In her later years, Lin Wanzhen's lover Wang Ziping also suffered from dementia, and she has been carefully caring for her until the last moment.
Aunt Qiong Yao, 82 years old this year, also claimed that "I am really tired."
"I think that at the beginning, I used to cook words to cure hunger, I wrote desperately, day and night, and wrote with all my heart, at that time, not only to cure hunger, but also to realize the dreams of others! Now, I don't need to fight so hard!"
After getting married, Qiong Yao finally had a righteous partner, uninterrupted brushstrokes, both requirements for herself and expectations for her lover, and there was more responsibility behind that persistence.
Now that aunt Qiong Yao has no worries, she may be able to slow down and start creating some more authentic works.
With the death of Ping Xintao, the love that was once a storm has finally come to an end.
In this relationship, there is no winner, Lin Wanzhen experienced more than 10 years of forbearance and betrayal, Qiong Yao became a "money-making machine", 80 years old was called "Little Three", and the initiator of all this, Ping Xintao, eventually died of dementia.
The emotions that were once regarded as treasures have long since become fragmented in the face of time.
There is nothing wrong with loving someone, but: "Love is restraint, not wantonness".
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【Text| Yu Sanpier]
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